ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESSING POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE

Please note that this list is in formation and is regularly expanded based on recommendations from the field and from funders. If you would like to suggest an organization for this list, or you are part of an organization that you think should be on this list, please write to us at fundersforjustice@nfg.org.

ALABAMA

T.O.P.S. is a nonprofit, faith-based organization that offers hope, without regard to race sex, creed, color or social status, to individuals and their families who suffer the effects of drug addiction, incarceration, homelessness, unemployment, hunger and illness, through comprehensive faith-based programs that provide a continuum of unconditional acceptance and care.

ARIZONA

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone.

Arcoíris works towards the collective liberation of Arizona queer and trans migrant communities both inside and outside of immigration detention. We seek the collective physical and mental liberation of LGBT migrants in and outside of the migratory detention system.

Our purpose is to train and build the next generation of community organizers to effectively strengthen the voice of working families and under-represented populations in order to impact local issues affecting our community.

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is a multi-racial, democratic, non-profit community organization building power in low-to-moderate-income neighborhoods to stand and fight for social, economic, and racial justice.

The BlackOUT Collective is a full service Black Direct Action collective, which provides on the ground support, training and the opportunity for deep space visioning in communities that prioritize the liberation of Black people.

Born from the first July 2011 hunger strike initiated in the Pelican Bay SHU, a movement of family members came together in September 2011 to support efforts to end solitary confinement in California’s prisons.

COLORADO

Dedicated to eliminating violence within and against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) communities in Colorado, and providing the highest quality services to survivors.

FLORIDA

The Dream Defenders develop the next generation of radical leaders to realize and exercise our independent collective power; building alternative systems and organizing to disrupt the structures that oppress our communities.

Safe Streets/Strong Communities is a community-based organization that campaigns for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans, one that creates safe streets and strong communities for everyone, regardless of race or economic status.

MINNESOTA

Communities United Against Police Brutality is an all-volunteer organization of survivors of police brutality, family members of people hurt or killed by police, and allies. Their goal is to provide a structure for survivors to [...]

WeCopwatch, a national Copwatch group dedicated to educating the public and community groups impacted by police violence about their rights when stopped by law enforcement, and how to safely and effectively document police interactions with [...]

NATIONAL

The mission of The Gathering is to end child incarceration while eliminating the racial inequities in the criminal justice system that enliven mass incarceration. Justice League NYC, an initiative of The Gathering, is a rapid response network that addresses urgent social, civil and human rights issues including police accountability.

WeCopwatch, a national Copwatch group dedicated to educating the public and community groups impacted by police violence about their rights when stopped by law enforcement, and how to safely and effectively document police interactions with [...]

The Abolitionist Law Center is a public interest law firm inspired by the struggle of political and politicized prisoners, and organized for the purpose of abolishing class and race based mass incarceration in the United [...]

The Workers Center for Racial Justice works to increase access to quality jobs and strengthen working conditions and job security for Black workers and the families and communities that depend on them.

The US Human Rights Network is a national network of organizations and individuals working to strengthen a human rights movement and culture within the United States led by the people most directly impacted by human rights violations.

Right to the City (RTTC) emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods.

ICC is community based organization in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. We work on an array of social justice and quality of life issues, including Fair Housing, Environmental Justice and Community Development, in addition to providing direct services.

NORTH CAROLINA

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in August 2007 in Durham, North Carolina by a multidisciplinary group, predominantly people of color, who believe that families and communities engaged in social justice struggles need a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers and media specialists to support them in their efforts to dismantle structural racism and oppression.

Racial Justice NOW! is committed to dismantling structural and institutional racism in all areas of people activity. Our primary focus is on the institution of education and lifting up the voices of disempowered Black parents [...]

RHODE ISLAND

The Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA) organizes low-income families, immigrants communities, and people of color in Olneyville and beyond to create a diverse, community-led movement that wins economic, social and political justice.

We recognize that a cycle of violence keeps our youth, families, and community oppressed and disenfranchised. Our Vision is to confront and end state, street, and interpersonal violence affecting the Southeast Asian American community in Rhode Island.

TENNESSEE

In the spirit of the birth of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Lives Matter Memphis principal objective is to progress and ensure the protection of all Black Lives regardless of gender, disability, levels of education, socio­economics status, political beliefs, and sexual orientations, our organization promotes black unity, to achieve equality amongst our citizens. BLMM seeks to eliminate systematic oppression through awareness, education, and a demand for betterment and change for all black lives.

WASHINGTON D.C.

Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf (HEARD) is a DC-based all-volunteer nonprofit that focuses on ending police brutality of people who are deaf and people with disabilities--with a particular focus on deaf and disabled communities of color who make up the majority of those murdered by law enforcement annually.

This site is a virtual organizing platform for funders, donor networks, and affinity groups to connect with each other and with the movement for racial justice and police accountability across the country. The project is intended to help enable philanthropy’s role in partnering with our communities to create and live in vibrant, healthy, prosperous, democratic communities.